By BERNIE BELLANSeven years ago The Jewish Heritage Centre of Western Canada produced its most ambitious endeavour to date: the publication of historian Allan Levine’s seminal book chronicling the history of the Jews of Manitoba, Coming of Age - A History of the Jewish People of Manitoba.

By BENJI AZIZAInstead of taking summer courses at the University of Manitoba this summer, I decided to apply for an internship at the International Institute for Counter Terrorism at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, Israel.

By BERNIE BELLAN The mass killing in Orlando earlier this month provoked the usual storm of outrage from a myriad of different commentators – although the outrage varied depending on the perspective of the person voicing the outrage.

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It is very misleading to focus on the ethnic origin question in regards to defining the Jewish population. Researchers use a 6 point scale to create Jewish pop counts with Census data but only every 10 years when religion is asked. Jackie http://cija.ca/disappearing-jews/

I found it interesting to learn of these hockey pros from our community. There seems to be a big gap in time from when Max played hockey in the 40's to what would be retirement age. I am just wondering what his post hockey pro career was. There was nothing in the article about it. Ed. note: If you ...

I have responded to the sender of the comment about looking for a rabbi, but if you know someone in the Toronto area who you think might be of help, please send an email to jewishp@mymts.net and I'll forward your email to the sender of the comment. -Bernie Bellan